Tech Lead - Sr. Software Engineer

Tech Lead - Sr. Software Engineer

In this role, you'll mentor the project team, share knowledge, and collaborate with the Solution Architect to determine project architecture. You'll lead in developing projects, promoting best programming practices, and have influence over developers. Lastly, you'll provide application support, develop and document applications, and maintain application documentation and configuration.

As a Tech Lead Software Engineer, you are a hands-on technical leader with end-to-end ownership of service-level architecture, delivery outcomes, and production reliability. You set technical direction, make and communicate clear architectural tradeoffs, and lead through influence—aligning engineers, product, and partners around durable, scalable solutions. You design, build, and operate backend services as the organization modernizes from on-prem to AWS, applying cloud-native and event-driven patterns to improve reliability, security, and developer velocity. You champion build-it/run-it ownership, ensuring services meet clear standards for quality, observability, and operational excellence. You accelerate delivery through AI- and agentic-first engineering practices, establishing safe, repeatable workflows that improve throughput and quality while maintaining strong validation, security, and governance. You raise the engineering bar by mentoring others, setting clear guardrails, and continuously improving the systems and practices your teams rely on.

Our mission is to empower our company, teammates, and customers through resilient, customer-centric technology. We leverage our technical expertise and deep business understanding to deliver impactful solutions. Mindset ownership, customer obsession, growth mindset, think big—start small, bias for action, and relentless pursuit of engineering excellence.

Why Join Us Impact: Build platforms used across the business; modernize critical systems, development agentic-first solutions. Growth: Leadership development, career advancement, and cutting-edge tech adoption. Culture: Inclusive, collaborative, and innovation-driven. Career Paths: Multiple advancement opportunities available.

Education & Experience Requirements This level of knowledge is normally acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree in a technology field and/or 8+ years of related experience. Technology certifications are preferred. It is also preferred that the candidate have Banking and Financial Service experience. Must-Have Demonstrated technical leadership as a Tech Lead or senior IC—owning service-level architecture, influencing decisions, and serving as a technical escalation point Strong backend engineering experience designing and operating secure, scalable services (Java or JVM-based environments preferred) Production experience building cloud-based systems, including hands-on experience with AWS (compute, messaging, storage) and cloud-native patterns Experience designing event-driven architectures, including publish/subscribe patterns, message durability, idempotency, retries, and failure handling Build-it / run-it ownership mindset, with experience supporting services in production, participating in on-call, and driving incident remediation Strong quality discipline, including test strategy (unit, integration, contract), CI/CD quality gates, and rigorous code review practices Proven ability to collaborate across teams, working effectively with product, platform, security, and dependent engineering groups Excellent technical communication skills, able to clearly document and explain architectural decisions and tradeoffs Nice-to-Have Experience modernizing legacy or on-prem systems, including decomposition strategies and evolutionary migration to AWS Practical application of domain-driven design concepts, such as bounded contexts, aggregates, and hexagonal architectures Experience with AI-assisted or agentic development tools, and familiarity with defining guardrails and validation practices Experience with containerization, orchestration, or serverless platforms, such as Docker, Kubernetes/EKS, ECS, or Lambda Infrastructure-as-Code experience, using tools like Terraform or CDK Experience with observability platforms (e.g., New Relic, Datadog, Prometheus) and SLO-driven reliability practices Experience with NoSQL data stores, such as MongoDB or Redis, and performance-aware data modeling Familiarity with API gateways and integration patterns, such as Kong or Apigee Experience operating in regulated environments, with awareness of PCI, SOX, or similar requirements

BOK Financial Corporation Group is a stable and financially strong organization that provides excellent training and development to support building the long term careers of employees. With passion, skill and partnership you can make an impact on the success of the bank, customers and your own career! Apply today and take the first step towards your next career opportunity! The companies in BOK Financial Corporation Group are equal opportunity employers. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for training, compensation, transfer, promotion and other aspects of employment for all qualified applicants and employees without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy status, sexual orientation, genetic information or veteran status. Please contact View email address on click.appcast.io with any questions.